Alfred james weston



(No ModeL) A. J. WESTON. PORTABLE GUBTAINED HAMMOGK STAND. No. 427,490. Patented May 6 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED JAMES \VESTON, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA.

PO RTAB LE CU RTAI N ED HAM MOCK-STAN D.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 427,490, dated May 6, 1890.

Application filed October 9, 1889. Serial No. 326,449. (No model.)

' To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that i, ALFRED JAMES IVES- TON, builder, of the city of Toronto, in the count-y of York, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented a certain new and Improved Portable Ourtained Hammock-Stand, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to design a comfortable curtained hammock-stand which may be readily taken apart and packed into a small compass; and it consists, essentially, of two vertical posts provided with lateral braces and connected together by two rails detachably connected to the posts from which the hammock is suspended, curtains being hung from the top rail on either side of the hammock.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved hammockstand with one of the curtains removed. Fig. 2 is a view of my hammock-stand packed for shipping.

The two vertical posts A are each provided with a pair of lateral braces B, which are preferably hinged at a to their respective posts, and are further connected to them by the hinged arms 0.

D is the upper rail, on each end of which a projecting finger E is fixed, which finger is designed to fit into a socket F, fixed to the posts A, as shown.

G is the lower rail, which is connected to the posts A in the same manner as the upper rail In order to pack the hammock-stand into I a small space to facilitate its transportation, the rails D and G are knocked out of their sockets, the curtains I wrapped round them and the rails placed parallel with the posts A and the whole bound together by the straps J, as shown in Fig. 2, the hinged arms O being disconnected, as indicated.

WVhat I claim as my invention is- A hammock-stand consisting of the stand ards having hooks for the hammock and carrying socket-pieces at their upper and lower ends, inclined braces hinged to said standards, the rails having fingers fitting in said sockets, and rods secured to the upper rail 011 each side thereof to receive the rings on the curtain.

Toronto, September 10, 1889.

ALFRED JAMES WESTON.

In presence of CHARLES C. BALDWIN, I. EDW. MAYBEE. 

